Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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90 Second Book Review: The Prophet
I am honestly starting to believe that Half Price Books is connected to some otherworldly dimension that sends books from the realm of forms into my physical reality when its time for me to read them. The Prophet is the most recent example of this. From what I can recall, I think I became aware…
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90 second book review: Mindfulness
I’m not sure when I first became aware of the concept of mindfulness (or present moment awareness, living in the “now”), but I think it had to be when I read this quote from C.S. Lewis in the Screwtape Letters: The humans live in time but our Enemy* destines them to eternity. He therefore, I…
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Success breeds resistance
I heard about this essay by famed playwright Tennessee Williams a few weeks back, but finally got around to reading it on a flight yesterday. An excellent read that connects directly with the War of Art audio book I recently finished and the Neil Gaiman commencement speech I posted a few weeks ago. In what could be termed…
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Driving into the future
I’m in the market for a new car. I can’t quite figure out if I should try to sell my 10 year old / 288K mile VW Jetta or my wife’s 8 year old / 135K mile Mercedes E320 Bluetec, but as soon as I figure that out, my wife will be getting a new…
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90 second book review: Man's search for meaning
The subject of this book review is yet another Half Price books find: Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Unlike a lot of the books on my recently read pile lately, this one didn’t come from the Tim Ferriss podcast, but rather a recomendation from Bill Buppert over at zerogov from Porcfest a few years…
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90 second book review: Sapiens
This is a gapper review. I actually finished this book several months ago, forgot (or neglected) to do a quick review at the time, added it to my to do list where its been sitting there for the better part of 3 months. Thankfully, I just finished another (audio) book (review forthcoming….soon….since this one has been jamming…
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I just booked a castle
I love AirBNB. I just booked a castle for our trip to Ireland this summer!
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Neil Gaiman: Make Good Art
If you are an artist or a fan of the arts, take 20 minutes and watch this from the great Neil Gaiman. Directly related to one of the audio books I am listening to right now.
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Giving up
Just as I’m not one for resolutions, I’m not one for giving things up for lent. But an idea got stuck in my head about midway through the year, so I’m going to give it a go. For the next 40 days starting tomorrow, I’m giving up complaining. This is a somewhat objective thing, so…